Hank.



Patented S ept. I0, I90l.

W. WOOD.

HANK.

(Application filed June 5, 1901.)

No Model.)

mmmtoz UNITED STATES PATENT rErcE.

WILLIAM WOOD, OF BANTA, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE JOHN FAKE, OF VERNALIS, CALIFORNIA.

HANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 682,376, dated September 10, 1901.

Application filed June 5, 1901. Serial No. 63,277. (N0 mod l-l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W001), a citizen of the United States, residing at Banta, in the county of San Joaquin and State of Oalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hanks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hanksz'. 6., devices for connecting the jibsails of vessels to stays in such manner as to permit of the sails being raised and lowered on the stays; and it contemplates the provision of a hank which is susceptible of ready application to a rigged stay and rigid connection to a jib-sail, and while free to move up and down on the stay is not liable to casual disconnection therefrom.

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings,

in which Figure 1 is a detail elevation illustrating a plurality of my improved hanks as applied to a stay and connected to a jib or jib-sail. Fig. 2 comprises enlarged disconnected views of portions of the stay and jib. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 and illustrating portions of my improved hank and one of the eyes of the jib in section. Fig. 4is a perspective view of the hank-body. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the screw comprised in the bank; and Figs. 6 and 7-are transverse sections taken in the planes indicated by the lines 6 6 and 7 7, respectively, of Fig. 4.

In the said drawings similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the several views, referring to which A is the jib-stay of a sailing vessel.

B is the jib, which is provided at its forward edge with the usual small rope or and at points adjacent to said rope with the usual metallic eyes I), and O O are my improved hanks for connecting the jib to the stay. The hanks are similar in construction, and therefore adetail description of the one shown in Fig. 3 will suffice to impart an understanding of all. The said hank comprises a body made up of two members 0 o and a screw d, through the medium of which the said members are clamped upon and connected to the jib. The body members are of double semi circular form, so that when brought together two circular openings (2 f will be formed between them, the opening 6 being designed to loosely receive the stay and the opening f, which is smaller than the opening e, being adapted to snugly receive the small rope to on the jib. The portions of the members 0 c which separate the openings e f are arranged to form a miter-joint g, as best shown in Fig. 3, the said miter-joint being adapted to permit of the members being moved sufficiently far apart for the introduction or removal of the small rope a, and yet preclude removal Y or disconnection of the hank from the stay, which, as before stated, is considerably larger in diameter than the rope a. At its inner end the body member 0 is provided with a plain aperture it, while at its outer end it has a loop oi, the cross-bar j of which has a square side 70, as shown, for a purpose presently pointed out. The body member 0 at its inner end is provided with a screw-tapped aperture Z, designed to register with the aperture h of member 0, and at its outer end has a square surface at to meet a similar surface a of member 0, and a hook p, designed to rest and move in the loop 2'.

The screw d for rigidly connecting the hankbody to a jib is preferably of the construction best shown in Figs. 3 and 6-that is to say, it comprises a head 0, designed tobear against the outer side of the straight end por tion of the body member 0, and a shank s, which is threaded for a portion of its length to engage the threaded aperture of the body member 0, and is provided adjacent to the head 'rwitha reduced plain portion i, designed to rest in the aperture of the body member 0, and at the inner end of said plain portion 23 with a shoulder a.

In practice my improved hanks, as before stated, are adapted to be applied to a stay after said stay is in position on a vessel. In applying the hanks the hooks p of the body members 0 are passed through the loops 2' of the body members 0, while said members are disposed at opposite sides of the stay and the stay rests in the comparatively large openings e of the hanks, and the said hooks are then closed upon the cross-bars j of the loops, as best shown in Fig. 3. With this done it will be observed that the hanks will be secured on the stay and are not liable to casual disconnection therefrom, this being due to the fact that the square meeting ends of the body members 0 c preclude swinging said members apart sufficiently far to permit of their removal from the stay. While the body members 0 c, by reason of the joint between them and the 'inwardlydirected portions forming the miter-joint 9, cannot be swung apart sufficiently far to admit of their removal from the stay, they can be readily opened to a sufficient extent to permit of the ready introduction of the small rope or on the jib between their smaller curvilinear portions, and from this it follows that the hanks may be readily connected to and disconnected from the jib when desired. In connecting the hanks to the jib the straight end portions of the body members 0 c are disposed at opposite sides of the jib and the ropea thereon and so that the said rope is received in the small openingsfof the hanks, and the screws are then passed through the openings in the body members of the hanks and the metallic eyes b of the jib, when thehanks will be rigidly connected to the jib and clipped or clamped on the rope a. In order to better enable the smaller curvilinear portions of the body members of the hanks to engage and tightly hold the rope a, the said curvilinear portions are chamfered at their inner sides,

as indicated by t) in Fig. 7.

I have entered into a detail description of my improved hank in order to impart a full and exact understanding of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the same. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to such specific construction and arrangement of parts, as such changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of my claims. I also do not desire to be understood as confining myself to the use of my improved hank in conjunction with a jib and jib-stay, as it is obvious that the said bank may be used to advantage in conjunction with other sails and their stays.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A hank or device for connecting a sail to a stay, comprising a body made up of double semicircular members; one of said members having a square end and a loop adjacent thereto, and the other having a hook engaging the loop of the first-named member anda square end to meet the similar end thereof, and a screw for connecting the opposite ends of the body members together, and to a sail and clamping said ends on the sail.

2. A bank or device for connecting a sail to a stay comprising a body made up of double semicircular members connected in a hinged manner at one end and having inwardly-directed lapped portions arranged intermediate of their semicircular portions, and also having straight end portions provided with apertures one of which is threaded, and. the inner sides of the curvilinear portions adjacent to the straight end portions chamfered and the screw for connecting the straight end portions of the body members together and to a sail and clamping the same on the sail.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM WOOD.

Witnesses:

WM. P. FRIEDRICH, O. M. KIMBALL. 

